🌎 In this week’s episode of As the AI World Turns, we find Microsoft reportedly building an LLM of the GPT-4 ilk, increasing competition with its partner and cash cow OpenAI.
According to The Information, the development of what’s currently being called MAI-1 is being overseen by Mustafa Suleyman, the former Inflection AI CEO that Microsoft poached along with most of the former competitor’s staff.
The new model is slated to have roughly 500 billion parameters, estimated to be about half of the current version of GPT-4.
Which means it may or may not be as good.
But advances in the performance of smaller models are occurring rapidly so it’s certainly possible.
It’s apparently somewhat early days in the build, however, because Microsoft reportedly doesn’t yet know how good the model will be.
Regardless, it’s another move by Microsoft and chessmaster CEO Satya Nadella that puts it in direct competition with its $10 billion investment and partner OpenAI.
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Of course, OpenAI’s Sam Altman has been busy putting his company in more direct competition with Microsoft recently as well.
A few weeks ago, Altman was convening business executives to convince them to work with OpenAI directly rather than tap its models through Microsoft’s platform.
OpenAI is still quite beholden to Microsoft, with nearly half of its for-profit arm's profits flowing to the Big Tech behemoth as well as an agreement that makes Azure its exclusive cloud provider for compute to train and run its models.
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It all makes for interesting theater, more of which we’re likely to see when OpenAI makes an announcement tomorrow about some upgrades to its current offerings.
Of course, in the end, both Nadella and Altman and their enterprises will likely be just fine and continue to help each other make billions.
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